How to make easy paper snowflakes for kindergarten
Easy Paper Snowflakes for Kindergarten: try all 10 steps in the 3D player. Turn and replay every move. Print the complete diagram sheet or save it as PDF.
The easiest six-point snowflake we teach: only two cuts. Trim the top, then make one stepped cut with two big barbs. Every line is straight, and there are no tiny details.
- You need
- Thin paper, a pencil, a ruler, a 30°/60° set square or the printed angle guide, and child-safe scissors.
- Start
- Begin with a 12 × 12 cm square of thin paper and a 30°/60° set square.
Your model is ready
Ease the creases flat. Lift the opened paper by an uncut edge to see the whole pattern. Hold the opened paper upright and flat, with the whole pattern.
Step-by-step diagrams
- 1
Fold the square in half
Bring the bottom edge to the top edge. The midpoint of the folded edge is the snowflake centre; mark it lightly.
- 2
Fold the left third across
At the marked midpoint, use the 60° corner of a set square to mark a ray up and left. Fold the left side over that ray; its folded edge now points up and right.
- 3
Fold the right third across
Fold the right side over the matching 60° ray up and right. Line its folded edge up with the left sloping edge. All three sectors should match at the centre.
- 4
Halve the wedge
Bring the left sloping edge to the right sloping edge. Fold straight up from the centre to make a narrow 30° packet with twelve layers near its point.
- 5
Trim the uneven tips
Cut straight across the packet 48 mm above its centre. The two uneven ears fall away and every sector now ends in the same straight edge.
- 6
Cut the two barbs
Start on the straight folded edge 18 mm above the centre. Cut across to a point 3.5 mm from the sloping edge, then follow that edge outward. Turn out in one big sharp barb and return to the same line, run on, and turn out in a second, smaller barb. Finish at the far corner of the sloping edge. Keep the paper beside the centre.
- 7
Open wedge half
Open this crease gently, leaving the earlier folds closed. Keep the uncut joins together.
- 8
Open right third
Open this crease gently, leaving the earlier folds closed. Keep the uncut joins together.
- 9
Open left third
Open this crease gently, leaving the earlier folds closed. Keep the uncut joins together.
- 10
Open half
Open this crease gently, leaving the earlier folds closed. Keep the uncut joins together.
- ✓
Finish
Ease the creases flat. Lift the opened paper by an uncut edge to see the whole pattern. Hold the opened paper upright and flat, with the whole pattern.
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